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Your morning adorable: Giant panda with an ice cube

July 14, 2009 | 11:59
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At a zoo in China's Hubei province, extreme heat means that keepers need to take extra measures to keep the animals cool. A giant panda named Xi Wang was given blocks of ice to help regulate her temperature. (Similar measures were taken at the London Zoo earlier this month, when a heat wave struck and keepers made special fruit "popsicles" for the resident gorillas, chimpanzees and other apes.)